perfidy

I am no longer in the habit of rendering witty, sharp, and on-target responses to rapidly changing world scene. A generous way of looking at this would characterize my thoughts as measured, wise, and deep. A less gracious estimation would be that ol' Buckethead over there is just old. 

So though there is a manifest and staggeringly deep well of evil that lies, stinking and shimmering in the heat of its own decay in the middle of our civic affairs, involving as it does the high, the mighty, and the innocent, I am not going to comment on any of that. Instead, I am going to notice one thing that while certainly less mind-blastingly vile than pretty much any random page of the vast trove of DOJ-released Epstein documents, is perhaps weirder:

regarding cold fusion. i killed pons years ago

So claimed Epstein to Al Seckel in 2009.

Ok, first of all let's just have a big, hearty wtf. WTF, over?

We've been edging toward the Unified Field Conspiracy Theory of Everything for quite a while now. Epstein, JFK, hidden technology, the Jews, the deep state, ubiquitous surveillance, Mossad assassinations (which means more Jews), aliens and UFOs, everything you can shake a stick at, plus the stick¹1plus the Mormons!. Things that were so far outside the Overton window as to be beyond the event horizon of reasonable discourse are now regular topics of discussion. This is all, for lack of a more punchy term, really fucking weird to the relatively normal person I once was.

So here we have two seemingly completely separate tentacles of the uber-conspiracy reaching around and fondling each other. Epstein, as the seeming nexus of all evil - and remember, in 2009 the world still seemed pretty normal - was not only connecting British royalty, billionaires, politicians, and scientists with underage girls, he was taking time out from his busy schedule to kill cold fusion research.

Ah, cold fusion. We even talked about that here at the Ministry back in the before times. There's long been stories floating around that there's something there, there - that set ups along the lines of Pons' original experiment generate energy, but not in an easily reproducible way. The Navy had played with it, some Israelis, a dude in France who while he might have gotten some results behaved in the cagy, secretive manner of a crank. No one ever made any real breakthroughs, but then no one ever put a lot of money into figuring it out.

Is it another instance of dark forces²2really dark forces, in this case burying technology that would have improved our lives? At this point given the revelations not just in the Epstein files but elsewhere, you almost have to bet on the conspiracy being right given that just about every conspiracy short of the flat earth has been.

It's a fucked up world, kinfolk.